From: Roberto Perez-Vila <RobfromVoid@prodigy.net> Subject: Re: [PW!] Sparks Fly in the Viridian Forest Date: Friday, October 01, 1999 10:08 PM "M.W.F." wrote: > Out of seemingly nowhere, a Muk, a Hypno, an Oddish, and a Bellsprout > appear out of nowhere. Alice tosses a pokeball at the Pikachu, quickly > capturing it! "My, Livewire for such a pretty Pikachu? I like it. > Thank you for the present! You certainly know how to treat a lady." > > Alysia holds up another pokeball and smiles. "This little pokeball has > your name on it, Luthor dear. And it also belongs to our boss, who would > love to have you as a pet in our evil orginization." Luthor takes a moment to understand his predicament. After a short moment of silence, he bellows out, "Never!" The Slowpoke stands up straight and raises his arms high, "I shall soon become the master of the universe. You cannot force me to be a measly slave under your pathetic boss. No Pokeball will ever capture the great Luthor. I will merely deflect your Pokeball with sheer mind power! Bwa ha ha ha..." The laughing wouldn't be as irritating if it wasn't as slow as it is. "Yeah right. Pokeball, go!" Alysia throws the Pokeball straight at Luthor. The Slowpoke that stands on his hind legs closes his eyes and focuses on slowing down Alysia's Pokeball in mid-air using his telekinetic powers. Low grunting is heard coming from Luthor's mouth as he uses the full force of his mind in order to stop the Pokeball hurtling towards him. Luthor opens his eyes and sees the Pokeball an inch from his face... ...for a brief moment, that is, before he gets sucked inside. "Yeah! I caught it!" Alysia tosses her hair frivolously, "The boss is sure to promote me now." Alice's eyes go wider than usual, "Promote *you*?! Hey, I caught that Freakachu! I'm sure he'll like it much more than that obnoxious Slowpoke you caught." "Hmmm. Hey, Alice, I just realized that you now have a Lightning Pokemon and I now have a Water Pokemon! We compliment each other well yet again!" Alysia smiles mischeviously and reveals a plan, "We could just tell the boss we didn't catch the Slowpoke and keep our brand new Pokemon, for the sake of having a well balanced team!" While Alice and Alysia discuss the intricacies of loyalty to Team Rocket and the value of their new Pokemon, Poison Ivy, Luthor's female Bulbasaur, pushes one of her small hands against the button on the Pokeball containing Luthor. In a flash of red light, the psychotic Slowpoke known as Luthor is free once again, "Freedom! Poison Ivy, you have proven yourself a valuable ally. I promote you to the position of Lieutenant. As your first order, attack those fools who dare attempt to capture your beloved master!" Luthor sneers at Alice, Alysia, and all their Pokemon. Poison Ivy does an instantaneous survey of the four enemy Pokemon before her. The giant yellow Psychic Pokemon with the white fuzz around his neck looks too large. The giant pile of purple toxins is too scary. The skinny Pokemon with the funny yellow head doesn't look like a threat. Then she sees Alysia's Oddish. She gets in a battle stance, "Bulba!" "Proceed with a Tackle maneuver!" Luthor barks the order to his Bulbasaur, not sure if she'd do it herself without guidance. He falls onto all four legs and decides to relax, quite sure Poison Ivy will solve all of his problems. Alysia shouts out a command at the same time Luthor shouts his, "Oddish, Sleep Powder!" "Oddish!" "Bulbasaur!" "Odddd!" "Bulllbaaa...Bullbaaaa!" Since Poison Ivy is swifter than the small Oddish, she gets the Tackle in before the Oddish can eject any sleep powder, and the Plant Pokemon falls to the ground. When the Sleep Powder finally is released from the Oddish's leaves, it sprinkles harmlessly onto the ground. Poison Ivy automatically follows up with another Tackle attack, and Alysia's Oddish faints! Poison Ivy stands up, rubs her hands down the sides of her curvaceous body, and giggles, "Bulbasaur!" That's when she feels something sprouting from her back... Alysia looks shocked and annoyed, "She wins one freakin' battle and she's already evolving? That's *so* cliché!" "Alysia!" Alice notices the small seed that is on the verge of popping out of the Bulbasaur's back, "Didn't you learn *anything* while we were staying in the Celadon Gym? The Bulbasaur just learned how to use Leech Seed!" "You actually paid attention?" Alysia places her hands on her hips and makes a face that expresses disbelief. Luthor's chuckling interrupts the conversation, "I absolutely adore super heroes who accidentally assist the villains in their quest to destroy them. You have proven yourselves to be such super heroes. Poison Ivy, use Leech Seed!" The tiny seed pops out of Poison Ivy's back and soars through the air, landing on Alice's Bellsprout. The Pokemon gets wrapped with vines very similar to the ones it uses to wrap its foes! Noticing this, Alice calls out, "Wrap that Bulbasaur!" The Bellsprout extends two long green vines from the sides of his thin stem body and Wraps them around the Bulbasaur. Poison Ivy's Leech Seed attack, however, is stronger than the Bellsprout's Wrap, and Alice's Pokemon eventually faints! Alice grinds her teeth, now as frustrated as Alysia, but she quickly regains her cool, "So what if they lost? There's no way that Bulbasaur will be able to defeat my Muk! Muk, eat her! Eat that Bulbasaur! EAT HER!" "Do you know how sick that sounds, Alice?" Alysia asks with a silly grin. "MUH MUH MUH MUK!" Alice's Muk oozes over Poison Ivy and spits its Sludge attack repeatedly, with the intention of weaking its meal so that it doesn't escape. When the opponent is on the verge of fainting, the Muk opens its gaping maw wide and is about to suck in Poison Ivy as a late lunch, but Luthor the Slowpoke calls her back into his Pokeball. "Nobody... but nobody... eats my army... without my permission." Luthor grabs another Pokeball from his belt, "Your Pokemon cannot possibly defeat the great scientific genius that is Dr. Octopus!" When Luthor tosses the Pokeball, a small Tentacool with a flattened out head and an angry look in his eyes appears in a flash of red light. The Tentacool sees the Hypno and Muk before him and says, "Tent COOL!!! <I'm Mucked.>" Alysia's Hypno makes a mocking dismissing motion with its hand, before using a weak Confusion attack that rends Dr. Octopus unconscious. Luthor's jaw clenches when he sees Dr. Octopus defeated so easily, but he doesn't let his worries show, "Your Pokemon got lucky and defeated Dr. Octopus after a vicious struggle with the genius. But now behold the power of brawn over brains! Meet Clayface." Luthor grabs and hurls his final Pokeball, releasing a goofy looking purple Grimer. "Grrrrime!" Clayface goes up to Alice's leg and hugs it, "Grimer Grrrime!" Alice huffs, "Ick! Muk, attack!" Alysia breaks out into laughter, "Oh *come* on, Luthor! Hypno, dispose of it like you did the Tentacool." Luthor smiles, "It will not be that easy. Clayface, Mimic the Hypno." Luthor bursts out into slow maniacal laughter... Clayface shifts shape into the form of Alysia's Hypno, learning only one of the Pokemon's moves in the process. That one move is demonstrated quickly after the transformation, as Clayface sways his small pendulum back and forth. The Hypnosis attack puts Alice's Muk to sleep, but Alysia's Hypno isn't about to fall asleep from his own attack. "Hypno." In fact, the real Hypno is angered by the impostor. He releases a swift Confusion blast towards Clayface! The fake Hypno, Clayface, turns purple and melts onto the ground after the single psychic attack, fainted. Luthor takes a moment to figure out how one Psychic Pokemon could defeat the other so easily, "Curses! I forgot that Clayface retains his Poison type when he uses Mimic. My army has been defeated. I'm out of Pokemon." "And I'm out of patience!" Alysia fumes, "Hypno, use Psychic on that Slowpoke to weaken him so I can catch him!" Luthor closes his eyes, hoping his fellow Psychic will have some mercy, "Is this the untimely end of Luthor?" A whistle comes from the sky. A shadow covers the forest. A huge pink and gray mass crashes on top of a Hypno. Alice and Alysia, thinking that the creature that fell from the sky is an extraterrestrial, recall their Pokemon and blast off again! Luthor opens his eyes to see a Slowbro draped in gray robes. The Slowbro grabs his forehead, showing that he has a headache, "<That Vorge creature sure does pack a punch. But I'm certain that my master will be able to handle it.>" "Your master, eh?" Luthor raises one of his paws off the ground and rubs his chin, "Tell me more about this... master." -Luthor